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there and other suggestion of houses of long ago. The 
third floor contains four bedrooms anda bath. Mr. and 
Mrs. Alvin F. Sortwell have taken a lease of the house. 
Mrs. Moulton planned all these changes for Mr. and Mrs. 
Vaughan, just as she did those of the ancient house 
nearby. 
In the rear of the house there has been built a garage 
and stable, both under one roof, yet entirely separated 
otherwise, from plans by Julian I. Chamberlain, the Bos- 
ton architect. It contains space for two cars and a work 
room, and in the stable part a harness room, and four 
box stalls. Above is a hayloft with two rooms and a 
bath for use of a chauffeur. The exterior finish corres- 
ponds to that of the house. 
Also, in this neighborhood is an old red house of 
long standing, which has been changed in its site, a little 
farther back from the highway, and this has been some- 
what altered, with a new wing, for one thing, and inter- 
ior changes to make of it a far more comfortable house 
than in the past. This also forms a part of the Vaughan 
property. Another house has been altered as to roof lines, 
the old lean-to having been built up to give new rooms in 
the second story. The interior changes make the house 
far more modern than heretofore. 
Former Bush House Much Changed 
OR Henry Cleveland Perkins of Washington, D. C., 
who purchased the S. Dacre Bush estate in Hamilton, 
much has been done to improve the place. He has had 
the house remodelled so that it is about three times its 
original size, the changes planned by a Boston architect, 
Lynch Luquer, who has greatly altered the former ap- 
pearance of the place. The main part, on the garden side, 
has been extended and a new wing has been thrown out, 
with a new entrance at the corner of these two parts of 
the house. The porch is circular in shape, with fluted 
columns and a balustrade topped by urns. The window 
treatment above the porch is attractive. The roof is of 
the gambrel type. The porch is brick paved. In the new 
stairway hall, panelled in white, the stairway is treated 
in Colonial finish and shows graceful turn. The living 
room gained by the changes is about 37 by 20 feet in size 
and has a beamed ceiling and panelled walls, in old oak, 
on Gothic lines. The fireplace is of stone construction. 
The remodelling gives a new service part well planned 
by the architect, as an important improvement. Two 
master’s suites of bedrooms and baths are found over 
the living room, and on the second floor is also a new 
room for use of guests. In the service L are six new 
rooms and a bath for use of maids. On the third floor 
the changes include a bedroom, an unfinished attic and a 
maid’s room. The work is about finished, in the hands 
of Louis J. Geoffrion of Waltham. Considerable work 
has been done outdoors to improve the grounds. 
Elsewhere in Hamilton 
FOR John A. Tuckern.an, whose place is on County 
road in Hamilton, the former old house of Colonial 
farmnouse type has been so changed that it has come 
forth in its new form as an almost new place. ‘The re- 
modelling, which was planned by Lawrence & Wambolt, 
Boston architects, shows a new wing giving a large din- 
ing-room with fireplace, a lounge with tiled floor above 
which on the second floor are two new guest rooms and 
a bath. The wing is two and a half stories high with 
pitched roof. The work is now going on under F. P. 
Trussell. 
Ipswich Colony Gains New Houses 
1 the Argilla Road section of Ipswich a new house for , 
Roger S. Warner of Boston is in process of building 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
for summer occupancy. It is on what in the past was the 
Wendel place, and the old house originally there has been 
remodelled for use by Mr. Warner’s father, Joseph Bb. 
Warner. ‘The new house, which is from plans by Victor 
H. Wigglesworth, a young Boston architect, who is carry- 
ing them out, will be of the farmhouse type and will em- 
body in its finish many ideas suggested by study of the 
old-time Saltonstall-Whipple house in Ipswich, built 
somewhere between 1636 and 1675, the exact date not 
being certain. Simplicity has been the keynote on which 
Mr. Wigglesworth has made his plans, to conform with 
Mr. Warner’s own ideas. The house is to be long and 
wide, will be placed low to the ground and will take on an 
old-fashioned look. The pitched roof will be broken by 
shed dormer windows, and casement windows with shut- 
ters will be other features. The exterior finish will be of 
broad clapboards. The big chimneys will be low, as seen 
above the roof tops. From a hall of modest size, a 
winding stairway, Colonial in treatment, will lead to the 
second floor. ‘The living room will be large and the din- 
ing room, a study, bedroom and bath and the usual ser- 
vice rooms will make up the lower floor. A piazza may 
be reached from the living room and the study. On the 
second floor will be the owner’s bedroom suite, a boy’s 
room and bath, a nursery and two rooms with baths for 
the use of guests. Connecting with the owner’s suite and 
also with the nursery there will be sleeping porches. 
Three rooms and a bath for maids and a storage room 
will be found on the third floor. The house will take on 
a comfortable look, both inside and out, when finished. 
While it is in process of building, Mr. Warner will oc- 
cupy for the summer months the Jenkins cottage on Ar- 
gilla road. 
Mr. Wigglesworth has brought about various changes 
in the old Wendel house for Mr. Warner, and it has been 
greatly enlarged and now looks far different from its 
former appearance. An addition provides new bedrooms 
and baths, a new living room and a dining room, prac- 
tically new, and the kitchen and other service rooms have 
been much improved. Minor changes have been made > 
the second floor to make the house more comtortable. 
In all instances the old fireplaces have been retained. 
Cottage to be of Bungalow Type 
R. J. DELLINGER BARNEY of Boston, who is a 
member of the summer colony at Ipswich, is to build 
in that place a small cottage of bungalow type, a story 
and a half high with gambrel roof, and with exterior 
finish of siding. It will contain a spacious living room, 
dining-room and service part and five or six bedrooms 
and baths. Plans for this cottage have been prepared by 
Stickney & Austin, Boston architects. 
The De Blois House Remodelled 
HE, George L. De Blois place in Ipswich is among those 
which this season are marked by changes, chief among > 
which is a large new wing containing a kitchen, laundry 
and general rooms for service, all of which have beea 
planned for efficiency. A big rear porch has been added, 
as well as a spacious piazza and entrance porch of colo- 
nial type, with columns. Over this is a sleeping porch. 
The living room has been enlarged by throwing two old 
rooms into one apartment, which has a deep fireplace. 
The room is finished with panelled walls. The second 
floor gives new chambers and several new bathrooms, ts 
well as maids’ rooms. ‘The changes were planned by Lit- 
tle & Brown of Boston and were carried out for Mr. De 
Blois by J. T. Wilson & Son, Inc., of Nahant. 
Few men suffer in their own minds by comparison 
with their acquaintances, 
June 9, 1916. 
